Everybody Wants to Change the World but No One Wants to Die - Slime

EVERYBODY WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD BUT NO ONE WANTS TO DIE // 

✋lustrous lacquer
👃fizzy calamansi, sparkling energy drink, hot car plastic, motor oil, overheated electronics, aerosol hairspray, faint burnt rubber

*NOTE: This slime comes with two plastic water blaster toys. You can fill them with water and play with a friend! Do not squirt water into the slime. The slime also comes with two baggies of neon pigment that you can use to decorate the slides of the slime. 

“The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys” is a comic series expanding the world of the MCR album Danger Days. It follows the aftermath of the Killjoys (outlaw vigilantes) fighting Better Living Industries, a megacorporation controlling the city.
The song “Na Na Na” takes place in this universe, with the Killjoys in stylized raygun warfare against BL/ind’s minions. After one of them (The Girl) is captured, the Killjoys try to rescue her & die in the process. Years later, BL/ind expands into the surrounding desert. Rebels inspired by the Killjoys prepare to fight, while The Girl, their last surviving link, becomes central to the resistance.

“Na Na Na” plunges us into the Killjoys’ “live fast, die young” world, touching on our relationship with consumerism, the power dynamic between us & corporations, commodification, & performative rebellion (hence this slime’s title). 
When we’re so embedded in a consumerist culture, it warps our brains. In the Killjoys’ universe, even love is commodified: “Gimme love [...] I’ll take what I want from your heart / keep it in a bag, in a box [...] gimme more”. It’s all about what we can extract from each other. Violence is normalized, detached from consequence in a spectacle-obsessed culture where political dynasties & corporate elites rule (hmm, sound familiar?)

Even rebellion is commodified as flashy & edgy rather than something with real substance. Rather than putting real stake in the game, they look to the system for salvation, an easy fix to their problems, self-medicate, & accept the status quo:
“All the way in Battery City / The little children raise their open filthy palms like tiny daggers up to Heaven / & all the juvie halls & the Ritalin rats ask angels made from neon & garbage / Scream out, "What will save us?"”

The song resonates with those trapped in an ultra-commercial society where everything is commodified, & people try to cope while still desiring real change but not having any fight left in themselves.